Monsone wrote:Bolslania wrote:Well he should've been a bit more diplomatic shouldn't he?
Or understand that unlike the USA, if war with the USSR broke out, a land invasion would affect Germany first, then France and the Belenlux countries as well as Italy, and then the UK. In military terms, Germany is the USSR's Belgium, France is the USSR's Maginot Line that is to be circumvented by going north through Belgium and the Netherlands, and then the UK is that last holdout that would watch in horror as Europe is steamrolled by the USSR. So yeah, the fear of the USSR, and the need for more cooperation and coordination as well as nuclear weapons is logical from the French, German, or British perspective. After all, it would still take a nuclear bomber 10+ hours to hit it's target, by which time who knows what could happen in Europe.
With war with the USSR the maginot line would mean nothing. They’d steamroll Poland and Germany, go through Belgium and then destroy France like the Germans in WW2. Thabksfully, I’m not in Europe.